Improvement in water-wheels



T. H. POWERS. WATER-WHEEL.

No.173,664. ?artan-red. Fe'b.15,1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

THOMAS n. POWERS, OF FILLMORE, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173664, dated February 15, 1876; application filed i January 8, 1876. i

To all whom it may concerns of Fillnore, in the cou'nty of Fillmore and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and `valuable Improvement in Water-Wheels; and

I do hereby deolare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part ot' this specilicatiomand to the letters and 'figures of reference marked thereon. e

Figure 1 of the drawings is arepresentation of a vertical section of my water-wheel; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views thereof. A My invention relates to water-wheels; and it consists in the Construction and general arrangement of .a conical wheel, with buckets and exterior case attached thereto, and a basket-rim, with iterior gate placed above the same, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.. i i

In the annexed drawing, A is the shaft or spindle ot' ny wheel, resting on a pivot, a, and having a suitable upper hearing, b. On the shaft A is Secured a conical hub, B, made larger at the bottom than at the top, and provided around its exte'rior surface with a series of huckets, '0 O, set at an angle of torty-five degrees, and extending above the hub on an incline for a suitable distance. Surrounding these buckets, and attaohed thereto, is a case, D, which runs with :the wheel. Above the wheel, and attached to the flune, is a basketshaped or spout rim, Gr, which fits down in the concave space fornedby the hub, buckets, and surrounding case. The water passes through openings in this rim, and strikes the buckets G C at their upper euds, and when the force is spent the weight of the water descends on the buckets to the bottom of the wheel. Fnrthernore, the centrifugal force produced by the rotary moton tlrows the water to the periphery of the wheel, increasing the power thereby. Within the'rin G is a correspondingly-shaped gate, E, for letting on and shutting oti' the water, said gate being buckets at right angles. The centrifugal force' r will throw the water to the out edge of the i buckets, but not ofi' from the same, on account of the outside case D, and at the same time add to the nomentun, as well as give it more* leverage.

The water, after striking the buckets, as directed by the spout-rim, acts uponthe buckets as weight, inoreasing the power ot' the wheel.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y The water-wheel, consistig of the conical hu'b B, with buckets G extending above the same, 'and surrounding case D, in combination with the basket-shaped or spout rim G and gate E, all oonstructed and arranged substatially asand for the purposes 'herein set forth. i

In testinony that I claim the above I have hereunto suhscribed my name in the presence ot' two witnesses.

THOMAS HART POWERrS.

Witnesses: i i p i -R. D. SMITH,

O. GRAIN. 

